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The SVB Collapse, How the Government Responded, and the Era in Tech that Ended This Weekend

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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Is There a Bank Run in the VC Community?

Could the leadership at SBB, could they have hedged more than they did in the past year to sort of mitigate some of this like downside risk or cataclysmic risk? I mean, maybe to an extent, there's some weirdness around what hedging you can do versus hold a maturity sort of sort of bonds. There's also the point where they sunk the second they they put all that money in. Once they bought all these long trips, I think they were screwed.

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